Thousand and One Nights
Stories told by Shahrazad frame an expansive collection of adventures, fables and encounters shaped by imagination and the need to survive.
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TIME: 100 Best Fantasy Books (2020)
Explore TIME’s 2020 selection of fantasy books: myths, magic and imagined worlds, from early classics to contemporary voices. The books appear in the source’s chronological sequence, with links to fine editions where available.
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Le Morte d’Arthur
An extensive retelling gathers Arthurian quests, courtly rivalries and the events leading to the fall of the Round Table.
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
A girl's fall into an impossible world turns familiar rules of language, logic and social behaviour upside down.
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Through the Looking-Glass
Alice steps through a mirror into a world whose chessboard geography and verbal puzzles transform familiar assumptions.
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Five Children and It
Five children encounter a wish-granting creature whose gifts reveal the inconvenient consequences of getting what they request.
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Ozma of Oz
Dorothy's voyage with a talking hen leads to unfamiliar lands and a new adventure involving the ruler of Oz.
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Mary Poppins
An extraordinary nanny's arrival transforms the routines of a London family through magical outings and unexpected encounters.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Four children enter a wintry other world where a witch's rule is challenged by the return of Aslan.
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard
A devoted drinker's search for his deceased supplier takes him through a landscape of spirits and transformations.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
A sea voyage to Narnia's eastern reaches brings encounters with strange islands and tests of character, courage and belief.
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The Fellowship of the Ring
Frodo leaves the Shire with a dangerous inheritance, joining companions charged with preventing its return to a powerful enemy.
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
A child fleeing violence enters a realm of ghosts, where strange encounters turn the search for home into an extended ordeal.
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The Two Towers
Separated members of the fellowship face the growing war in Middle-earth while Frodo and Sam continue toward Mordor.
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The Return of the King
The struggle for Gondor and the final stages of the Ring's destruction bring the intertwined journeys of the fellowship to their conclusion.
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A Hero Born
A young man's development in martial arts unfolds against family obligations and the competing powers of medieval China.
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The Once And Future King
Arthur's education and reign become an exploration of justice, political power and the difficulty of replacing violence with a moral order.
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James and the Giant Peach
A lonely boy escapes his cruel aunts inside an enormous peach, travelling with a company of oversized insects.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
A bored boy enters a kingdom where wordplay and mathematical puzzles reveal the pleasures of learning and paying attention.
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A Wrinkle in Time
Children travel through extraordinary dimensions to search for a missing father and confront a power that suppresses individuality.
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The Wandering Unicorn
A supernatural narrator recounts events in a medieval world of chivalric longing, enchantment and the Crusades.
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Dragonflight
A young woman's bond with a dragon places her at the centre of efforts to protect a threatened world.
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The Last Unicorn
A unicorn searching for others of her kind encounters a failing magician, human longing and the danger of losing her own nature.
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A Wizard of Earthsea
A gifted young magician's pride releases a shadow that he must eventually learn how to confront.
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The Crystal Cave
An imagined account of Merlin's youth connects his developing abilities with the political struggles preceding Arthur's birth.
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The Tombs of Atuan
A young priestess's encounter with an intruder challenges the religious authority and isolation shaping her life.
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Watership Down
Rabbits fleeing a threatened home undertake a dangerous search for a place where their community can survive.
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The Dark Is Rising
A boy's eleventh birthday reveals his place in an ancient struggle between the forces of Light and Dark.
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The Princess Bride
A framed tale of romance and adventure combines sword fights, improbable escapes and playful commentary on how stories are told.
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Tuck Everlasting
A girl's encounter with an immortal family makes the prospect of living forever a question rather than a simple gift.
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet
A boy travels through different historical possibilities in an attempt to avert a future catastrophe.
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The Bloody Chamber
Reimagined fairy tales expose the desires, threats and unequal powers beneath familiar narratives of innocence and rescue.
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The BFG
A girl befriends an unusually gentle giant and joins him in an attempt to stop his dangerous fellow giants.
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Alanna: The First Adventure
A girl disguises herself as a boy to pursue the training and life of a knight.
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Howl’s Moving Castle
A young woman transformed into an old woman seeks help in a wizard's moving castle, where appearances repeatedly mislead.
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Redwall
Woodland animals defend their abbey from invaders in an adventure centred on courage, community and an inherited heroic example.
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Swordspoint
A celebrated swordsman's relationship with a volatile scholar draws them into the dangerous calculations of an aristocratic city.
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The Lives of Christopher Chant
A boy's journeys into other worlds reveal abilities that complicate the plans adults have made for his future.
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The Eye of the World
An attack on a remote village sends its young inhabitants into a journey involving an ancient conflict and dangerous prophecies.
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Good Omens
An angel and a demon's attachment to earthly life complicates their expected roles in the approaching apocalypse.
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
A boy's efforts to restore his father's storytelling lead into a fantastical struggle over the freedom and vitality of stories.
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Outlander
A twentieth-century nurse transported to eighteenth-century Scotland must negotiate danger and a new attachment while remembering the life she left behind.
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Tigana
Survivors of a conquered province struggle to recover both political freedom and the magically erased memory of their homeland.
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The Golden Compass
Lyra's search for missing children leads north, where experimental cruelties and questions about a mysterious substance threaten established authority.
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Neverwhere
An ordinary Londoner's act of kindness draws him into a dangerous hidden city beneath the familiar streets.
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Ella Enchanted
A girl cursed to obey every command struggles to claim her own choices in a reworking of Cinderella.
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The Subtle Knife
Lyra and Will travel between worlds, encountering a knife whose powers make them central to an escalating conflict.
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Brown Girl in the Ring
A young mother in a neglected Toronto neighbourhood confronts dangerous powers through the spiritual traditions of her Caribbean inheritance.
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Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
An escaped prisoner's apparent pursuit of Harry leads to revelations about friendship, betrayal and his parents' past.
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Spindle’s End
A princess raised away from court grows toward an encounter with the curse that has shaped her concealed identity.
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A Storm of Swords
Rival claimants and their followers pursue power across a fractured kingdom as betrayals reshape the war's possibilities.
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American Gods
An ex-convict becomes involved in a conflict between immigrant gods and newer powers sustained by modern American obsessions.
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The Wee Free Men
A young would-be witch recruits a chaotic band of tiny allies to rescue her brother from a dangerous otherworld.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry investigates a mysterious annotated textbook while learning more about the history and vulnerabilities of his enemy.
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Mistborn: The Final Empire
A street thief's emerging magical abilities draw her into a plan to overthrow the apparently invincible ruler of a brutal empire.
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The Name of the Wind
A legendary musician and magician recounts the difficult childhood and university years behind his public reputation.
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City of Glass
Clary travels to the Shadowhunters' ancestral city as family secrets and a threatened attack raise the stakes of an ongoing conflict.
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
A girl inspired by her father's stories sets out to improve her family's fortune through encounters drawn from Chinese folklore.
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
A young woman summoned to a ruling family's palace becomes entangled in divine rivalries and an uncertain succession.
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Who Fears Death
A young woman's developing powers confront the violence and inherited divisions of a post-apocalyptic African world.
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Akata Witch
An American-born girl living in Nigeria discovers a magical community and begins learning abilities linked to her unusual identity.
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The Night Circus
Two young magicians' secret competition gives rise to a remarkable circus whose performers become entangled in their contest.
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The Song of Achilles
The relationship between Achilles and Patroclus becomes the centre of a retelling of the events leading to the Trojan War.
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Angelfall
A teenager searching for her sister makes an uneasy alliance with an injured angel in a devastated world.
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A Stranger in Olondria
A merchant's son travels to a country he knows through books, where an encounter with a ghost complicates the power of literacy.
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The Bone Clocks
Several interconnected lives reveal a hidden struggle between beings whose conflict extends beyond ordinary human lifespans.
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The Buried Giant
An elderly couple's journey through post-Arthurian Britain explores the uneasy relationship between collective forgetting, peace and personal memory.
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An Ember in the Ashes
A young woman infiltrating a military academy and a soldier questioning his role confront the cruelty of an empire.
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The Fifth Season
A mother's personal catastrophe unfolds on a continent repeatedly devastated by seismic disasters and the oppression of those who can control them.
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Get in Trouble
Stories bring the fantastic into recognisable settings, unsettling assumptions about childhood, technology, friendship and ordinary desires.
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The Grace of Kings
Two unlikely allies help overthrow a tyranny, only to discover that their hopes for the new order pull them in different directions.
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Shadowshaper
A Brooklyn teenager discovers that her family's artistic inheritance is connected to a threatened community of people who animate spirits through art.
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Six of Crows
A crew of criminals attempts an exceptionally dangerous heist, bringing incompatible motives and difficult histories into a fragile alliance.
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The Wrath & the Dawn
A young woman volunteers to marry a ruler who kills his brides, intending revenge but discovering a more complicated history.
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All the Birds in the Sky
A witch and a technological prodigy reconnect as their competing approaches to a threatened world pull them toward conflict.
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A Torch Against the Night
Fugitives from an oppressive empire undertake a dangerous rescue while facing new threats and divided obligations.
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The Wall of Storms
The next generation of an imperial family confronts internal disputes and an external invasion that challenges its emerging institutions.
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Beasts Made of Night
A young man who consumes the physical manifestations of others' sins becomes involved in a struggle over the power this labour sustains.
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The Black Tides of Heaven
Twins born into a ruling household develop different relationships with magic, gender and the political order surrounding them.
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The Changeling
A new father's search for his family leads into a terrifying world concealed beneath contemporary New York.
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Jade City
Rival clans struggle for control of a city where jade grants exceptional abilities and anchors both cultural identity and criminal power.
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The Stone Sky
A mother and daughter approach separate choices that will determine the future of their damaged world.
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Aru Shah and the End of Time
A girl's attempt to impress her classmates awakens a dangerous being and sends her into an adventure connected to Hindu mythology.
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Blanca & Roja
Two sisters resist a family curse that appears destined to transform one of them into a swan.
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Children of Blood and Bone
A young woman attempts to restore magic to a kingdom whose rulers have violently suppressed its practitioners.
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Circe
The Greek enchantress recounts a life of exile and self-discovery, encountering gods and mortals while claiming authority over her own story.
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Empire of Sand
A young woman's inherited magic makes her a target within an empire that closely controls ancestry, power and belonging.
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The Poppy War
A poor student's entry into an elite military academy leads into war and the dangerous possibilities of shamanic power.
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Song of Blood & Stone
A healer and a spy confront the weakening magical barrier between two kingdoms while navigating prejudice and an emerging attachment.
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Trail of Lightning
A Diné monster hunter confronts supernatural dangers and difficult personal histories in a world transformed by catastrophe.
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Witchmark
A doctor concealing his magical background investigates a suspicious death that exposes the hidden arrangements sustaining his society.
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf
A tracker's search for a missing child produces competing stories of violence, loyalty and uncertain truth in an African-inspired fantasy world.
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Children of Virtue and Vengeance
The restoration of magic brings new conflicts as rival groups struggle over the future of a divided kingdom.
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The Dragon Republic
A traumatised commander seeks a new alliance against imperial power while confronting the consequences of her destructive abilities.
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
A young woman's accidental release of a Mayan death god draws her into a journey across 1920s Mexico.
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Pet
A teenager in a city that claims to have eliminated monsters encounters a creature whose presence challenges that reassuring account.
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Queen of the Conquered
An island woman's proximity to colonial power raises difficult questions about complicity, revenge and the limits of personal ambition.
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The Rage of Dragons
A young man's pursuit of vengeance drives an extraordinary effort to master combat within a rigidly divided society.
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We Hunt the Flame
A hunter and an assassin's missions converge in an Arabian-inspired world threatened by the disappearance of magic.
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Elatsoe
A Lipan Apache teenager investigates a relative's death using her ability to call on the spirits of dead animals.
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Woven in Moonlight
A hidden ruler's decoy enters an enemy court, where her magical weaving and changing loyalties complicate a plan for rebellion.
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